Synthetic Assets on Horizon Protocol: Tremendous Achievement for DeFi
Synthetic assets are different DeFi platform tokens that digitally represent real-life derivatives like futures and options. They are created via smart contracts on a distributed and globally accessible blockchain network. Horizon Protocol Horizon Protocol is a DeFi platform for creating on-chain synthetic assets (zAssets) based on real-life financial assets. The protocol is a fork from the liquidity derivatives protocol, Synthetix. Therefore, instead of reinventing the wheel, Horizon improves the interoperability, scalability, speed, and affordability of on-chain derivatives trading. It....
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